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Walt Whitman to Roden Noel, 25 May 1886

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  • Title: Walt Whitman to Roden Noel, 25 May 1886
  • Date: May 25, 1886
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: loc.03274
  • Source: The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839–1919, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Transcribed from digital images or a microfilm reproduction of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the correspondence, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Contributors to digital file: Stefan Schöberlein Kyle Barton
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Walt Whitman to Roden Noel, 25 May 1886." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: loc.03274.xml (TEI)
328 Mickle street Camden New Jersey U S America May 25 '861

Thanks for the photograph & letter—but the book has not yet reach'd me—Yes, indeed, I consider you one of my good friends in England.

Walt Whitman  loc.03274.002_large.jpg  loc.03274.001_large.jpg

Correspondent:
Roden Noel (1834–1894) was an English poet. Noel came from an aristocratic English family, and in his youth developed socialist sympathies. He was a close friend of the poet and influential critic Robert Buchanan, and it may have been through Buchanan that Noel first encountered Leaves of Grass in 1871 (the same year that he first wrote to Whitman). In 1871, Noel published an essay entitled "A Study of Walt Whitman" in The Dark Blue (Harold Blodgett, Walt Whitman in England [Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1934], 147–149).

Notes

  • 1. This postal card is addressed: Roden Noel | 57 Anesley Park | London S E | England. It is postmarked: CAMDEN | MAY | 25 | 130 PM | 1886 | N.J.; PHILADELPHIA | MAY | 25 | 1886 | [illegible]. [back]
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